To attempt to preserve all of the past would be life-denying. - Kevin A. Lynch

...the function of a good visual environment may not be simply to facilitate routine trips, nor to support meanings and feelings already possessed. Quite as important may be its role as a guide and a stimulus for new exploration.

Like law and custom, environment tells us how to act without requiring of us a conscious choice. In a church we are reverent and on a beach we are relaxed.

...a distinctive and legible environment not only offers security but also heightens the potential depth and intensity of human experience.